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Sunday, 9 April 2017

Drawing "An Eye" on Strathmore Toned Gray paper

"Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal." Samuel Richardson

When drawing a portrait it is imperative to focus on "Eyes". The eyes bring life into the portrait and they express the feelings and emotions the person is going through. Drawing eyes requires a lot of understanding of the underlying bone structure or rather human skull. Hence to get a better understanding of the eye and to try out my newly purchased "Strathmore Toned Gray paper", I decided to do few eye studies on this paper.

The pencils I have used are very soft Camlin Charcoal pencil, and Cretacolour white pastel pencil. Since it is a study work I decided to spend not more than forty minutes on each of them. Thegray colour of the paper acts as the mid tone value. To view the other tools that I use for my charcoal drawings you can CLICK HERE.

Two Charcoal drawings of

An Eye Study

on Strathmore Gray Toned paper

The Strathmore toned paperhas a very smooth surface and yet has a little texture which helps the charcoal and pastel to fix on it well. I enjoyed working on this paper. Whenever I buy a new paper I start off with a few study works because it helps me know the feel of it. I try out all my pencils and other related tools to understand what works best on it.

After having worked with different papers I have come to one very significant conclusion, ie every paper has a different texture and feel and a pencil which may have worked very good on a different paper may now always work on the new one as well. Therefore it is best to read and research through the net and listen to the advise of other artists BUT when it comes to actually using a pencil on a paper, the safest way is to try it out.

A new paper or a new set of colours is always an exciting experience for any artist. These days I do a bit of study myself on the net before going ahead to buy new art stationery. I have already tried Canson MT for similar works and it is very good. However I read a lot of positive reviews about Strathmore paper and fortunately it is available in Art Lounge or it can also be ordered online through Amazon India.

If you wish to purchase any of my original art or Commision a painting, contact me on my e mail id and I shall get back to you as soon as possible.

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ABOUT ME

Passionate about ART since childhood. Graduated in science and later in life took to brushes and pencils, drawing and painting different subjects in a realistic way. My love for travelling and being in different beautiful places inspired me further to capture the beauty of nature on paper and canvas. Created this blog to share my love of art, my experiments with different mediums and to get in touch with people who think, breathe and live art just the way I do.

It was my DREAM to draw, sketch and paint and I AM LIVING MY DREAM by painting almost every day of my life.

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A Charcoal portrait of a young girl

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Thumbnail or study sketches which are small art works created in different mediums. These works get completed fast and help in better understanding of the subject, medium and the techniques involved. It can be later used as a reference to create a bigger art work.